Race Bannon

Race Bannon
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Species	Human
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Intelligence One Doctor Benton Quest Jonny Quest Hadji Bandit Jezebel Jade Hardrock
Occupation	Government agent Government bodyguard
Works for	The U.S. Government
Goals	Protecting the Quest crew safe from all sorts of danger Tutor Jonny and Hadji on various topics
Father	John Bannon
Mother	Sarah Bannon
Marital status	Divorced husband to Jade Kenyan-Bannon in Jonny's Golden Quest, or Estella Vasquez in The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
Children	One daughter, Jessie Bannon, in the 1990s
First appearance	JQ: "The Mystery of the Lizard Men" (1964)
Played by	Mike Road (1964-65) Sonny Van Dusen (1986-96) Robert Patrick (1996-97) Robert Foxworth (1996-97) Thom Pinto (2000, 2005) Michael Hanks (2015)
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Roger T. "Race" Bannon is a government-employed bodyguard for the Quest family, and one of the main characters of the Jonny Quest animated franchise. His voice was originated by Mike Road.

Appearances

TV series

• Jonny Quest
  • 1.1 "The Mystery of the Lizard Men"
  • 1.2 "Arctic Splashdown"
  • 1.3 "The Curse of Anubis"
  • 1.4 "Pursuit of the Po-Ho"
  • 1.5 "Riddle of the Gold"
  • 1.6 "Treasure of the Temple"
  • 1.7 "Calcutta Adventure"
  • 1.8 "The Robot Spy"
  • 1.9 "Double Danger"
  • 1.10 "Shadow of the Condor"
  • 1.11 "Skull and Double Crossbones"
  • 1.12 "The Dreadful Doll"
  • 1.13 "A Small Matter of Pygmies"
  • 1.14 "Dragons of Ashida"
  • 1.15 "Turu the Terrible"
  • 1.16 "The Fraudulent Volcano"
  • 1.17 "Werewolf of the Timberland"
  • 1.18 "Pirates from Below"
  • 1.19 "Attack of the Tree People"
  • 1.20 "The Invisible Monster"
  • 1.21 "The Devil's Tower"
  • 1.22 "The Quetong Missile Mystery"
  • 1.23 "The House of Seven Gargoyles"
  • 1.24 "Terror Island"
  • 1.25 "Monster in the Monastery"
  • 1.26 "The Sea Haunt"
  • 2.1 "Peril of the Reptilian"
  • 2.2 "Nightmares of Steel"
  • 2.3 "Aliens Among Us"
  • 2.4 "Deadly Junket"
  • 2.5 "Forty Fathoms Into Yesterday"
  • 2.6 "Vikong Lives"
  • 2.7 "The Monolith Man"
  • 2.8 "Secret of the Clay Warriors"
  • 2.9 "Warlord of the Sky"
  • 2.10 "The Scourge of Skyborg"
  • 2.11 "Temple of Gloom"
  • 2.12 "Creeping Unknown"
  • 2.13 "Skulduggery"
• The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
  • 1.1 "The Darkest Fathoms"
  • 1.2 "Escape to Questworld"
  • 1.3 "In the Realm of the Condor"
  • 1.4 "Rage's Burning Wheel"
  • 1.5 "Ndovu's Last Journey"
  • 1.6 "Manhattan Maneater"
  • 1.7 "East of Zanzibar"
  • 1.8 "Assault on Questworld"
  • 1.9 "Ezekiel Rage"
  • 1.10 "Alien in Washington"
  • 1.11 "Return of the Anasazi"
  • 1.12 "The Alchemist"
  • 1.13 "Trouble on the Colorado"
  • 1.14 "In the Wake of Mary Celeste"
  • 1.15 "Amok"
  • 1.16 "Besieged in Paradise"
  • 1.17 "The Spectre of the Pine Barrens"
  • 1.18 "Heroes"
  • 1.19 "The Ballad of Belle Bonnet"
  • 1.20 "In the Darkness of the Moon"
  • 1.21 "The Secret of the Moai"
  • 1.22 "Expedition to Khumbu"
  • 1.23 "Ice Will Burn"
  • 1.24 "Future Rage"
  • 1.25 "Alligators and Okeechobee Vikings"
  • 1.26 "To Bardo and Back"
  • 2.1 "The Mummies of Malenque"
  • 2.2 "Rock of Rages"
  • 2.3 "Bloodlines"
  • 2.4 "Race Against Danger"
  • 2.5 "The Dark Mountain"
  • 2.6 "Cyberswitch"
  • 2.7 "Undersea Emergency"
  • 2.8 "Nemesis"
  • 2.9 "DNA Doomsday"
  • 2.12 "Eclipse"
  • 2.13 "Without a Trace"
  • 2.14 "Village of the Doomed" (no lines)
  • 2.15 "Dark Sentinel"
  • 2.16 "Other Space"
  • 2.17 "Digital Doublecross"
  • 2.18 "Thoughtscape"
  • 2.20 "Diamonds and Jade"
  • 2.21 "The Edge of Yesterday" (no lines)
  • 2.22 "The Haunted Sonata" (mentioned)
  • 2.23 "General Winter"
  • 2.24 "Night of the Zinja"
  • 2.25 "The Robot Spies"
  • 2.26 "More Than Zero"
• Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
  • 1.1 "Bannon Custody Battle"
  • 2.8 "Peanut Puberty"
  • 3.7 "Evolutionary War" (picture)
  • 3.9 "Return of Birdgirl"
  • 4.3 "Babysitter" (no lines)
  • 4.7 "The Death of Harvey" (no lines)

Movies

• Jonny's Golden Quest
• Jonny Quest Versus the Cyber Insects
• Tom and Jerry: Spy Quest

Comics

• Jonny Quest (Gold Key Comics)
  • #1 "The Mystery of the Lizard Men"
• Jonny Quest (Comico)
• The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
• Future Quest

Video games

• Jonny Quest: Cover-Up At Roswell

Development

According to The Art of Hanna-Barbera book, Race Bannon's appearance was modeled after actor Jeff Chandler. Joseph Barbera also wrote that Bannon resembled the title character of the Terry and the Pirates comic strip.

Gallery

Main article: Race Bannon/Gallery

In popular culture

• In the Freakazoid! segment "Doomsday Bet," from a one-off Toby Danger backup feature, Doctor Quest was lampooned as Dash O'Pepper, with Granville Van Dusen reprising his role as Race from the 80s incarnation of Jonny Quest.
• In the Adult Swim series The Venture Bros., Brock Samson was partly inspired by Race.
• In The Fairly OddParents TV movie Channel Chasers, Timmy zaps himself into the world of Jonny Hunt, in which he becomes part of an escape with the titular, young Jonny Hunt and his team from a laser-firing robot shaped like a scorpion in the jungle. The unnamed bodyguard-type gave Timmy a bazooka after the Doctor Quest-type invited him along with them after he saved them, referencing how careless the adults are.
• Following its spread in 2016, there was a series of political memes of Race Bannon with false captions labelling him as a violently homophobic version of US Vice President Mike Pence.

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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

• October 4, 2019: The cold opening segment is a flase cartoon known as "The Adventures of Mike Pence: Ukraine, not Me-Kraine," in which Pence (as portrayed by footage of Race Bannon) attempts to distance himself from then-US President Donald Trump, following his demands for the Ukrainian government to investigate Joe Biden.
• January 5, 2021: In "The Adventures of Mike Pence: The Uncertain Certification," Pence (again potrayed by Race) tries to not follow through with Trump’s demands to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
• September 15, 2021: In "The Adventures of Mike Pence: To Coup or Not to Coup," Pence (once more potrayed by Race) turns to ex-Vice President Dan Quayle to get advise on overturning an election, only for him to get rejected by his own request.